The Primacy of Love novel and Phaedo each present an

and Phaedo each present an element of the Socratic vision of death

National Director of the Association of Mary

By Mother Mary Francis

(Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton)

The Primacy of Love novel and Phaedo each present anBy August Adam Introduction by Ulrich L. Lehner Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, but degenerated into a vice. Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil indicts Christianity for the corruption of desire. In his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI refutes Nietzsche, demonstrating that the Gospel actually restores loves true grandeur. Too often, however, Christian preaching has failed to comprehend that truth. In The